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Direct linkRahel L. van Eickels; Magdalena Siegel; Alice J. Juhasz; Martina Zemp – Child Development, 2025
Empirical findings on the associations of positive and dysfunctional parent--child relationship (PPCR/DPCR) characteristics with child shame, adaptive guilt, and maladaptive guilt were synthesized in six meta-analyses. The 65 included samples yielded 633 effect sizes (N[subscript total] = 19,144; M[subscript age] = 15.24 years; 59.0% female; 67.7%…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Psychological Patterns, Child Development, Meta Analysis
Lixin Ren; Yeqing Li; Xuan Li; Jiayi Li; Lin Li; Jieqiong Fan – Child Development, 2025
Using latent profile analysis, the study examined distinct joint parenting styles among Chinese families with preschoolers (N = 300; 51.7% girls; M[subscript age] = 55.97 months). This study incorporated maternal and paternal reports on multiple parenting dimensions that covered both Western- and Chinese-emphasized practices. Using data collected…
Descriptors: Classification, Parenting Styles, Preschool Children, Child Development
S. V. Wass; C. S. Smith; F. U. Mirza; E. M. G. Greenwood; L. Goupil – Child Development, 2025
Children raised in chaotic households show affect dysregulation during later childhood. To understand why, we took day-long home recordings using microphones and autonomic monitors from 74 12-month-old infant-caregiver dyads (40% male, 60% white, data collected between 2018 and 2021). Caregivers in low-Confusion Hubbub And Order Scale (chaos)…
Descriptors: Infant Behavior, Family Environment, Physiology, Parent Child Relationship
Or Dagan; Carlo Schuengel; Marije L. Verhage; Sheri Madigan; Glenn I. Roisman; Kristin Bernard; Robbie Duschinsky; Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg; Jean-François Bureau; Abraham Sagi-Schwartz; Rina D. Eiden; Maria S. Wong; Geoffrey L. Brown; Isabel Soares; Mirjam Oosterman; R. M. Pasco Fearon; Howard Steele; Carla Martins; Ora Aviezer – Child Development, 2024
An individual participant data meta-analysis was conducted to test pre-registered hypotheses about how the configuration of attachment relationships to mothers and fathers predicts children's language competence. Data from seven studies (published between 1985 and 2014) including 719 children (M[subscript age]: 19.84 months; 51% female; 87% White)…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Attachment Behavior, Fathers, Mothers
Eva Yi Hung Lau; Xiao-yuan Wu; Carrey Tik Sze Siu; Kate E. Williams; Alfredo Bautista – Child Development, 2025
This study evaluates the effectiveness of the "Parent-child Brain Camp," a 4-week video-based executive functions (EFs) training program for children ages 5-6, through a randomized controlled trial with a pre- and post-test design with 173 Hong Kong children (intervention "ni" = 79, 48.7% girls, M[subscript age] = 69.16 months;…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Parent Child Relationship, Comparative Analysis, Intervention
Reut Shachnai; Mika Asaba; Lingyan Hu; Julia A. Leonard – Child Development, 2025
Overparenting--taking over and completing developmentally appropriate tasks for children--is pervasive and hurts children's motivation. Can overparenting in early childhood be reduced by simply framing tasks as learning opportunities? In Study 1 (N = 77; 62% female; 74% White; collected 4/2022), US parents of 4-to-5-year-olds reported taking over…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Parent Child Relationship, Preschool Children, Developmentally Appropriate Practices
Ophélie A. Collet; Massimiliano Orri; Cédric Galéra; Laura Pryor; Michel Boivin; Richard Tremblay; Sylvana Côté – Child Development, 2024
We investigated whether child temperament (negative emotionality, 5 months) moderated the association between maternal stimulation (5 months--2½ years) and academic readiness and achievement (vocabulary, mathematics, and reading). We applied structural equation modeling to the data from the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Child Development (N =…
Descriptors: Childrens Attitudes, Personality, Psychological Patterns, School Readiness
Rachael W. Cheung; Chloe Austerberry; Pasco Fearon; Marianna E. Hayiou-Thomas; Leslie D. Leve; Daniel S. Shaw; Jody M. Ganiban; Misaki N. Natsuaki; Jenae M. Neiderhieser; David Reiss – Child Development, 2024
Parenting and children's temperament are important influences on language development. However, temperament may reflect prior parenting, and parenting effects may reflect genes common to parents and children. In 561 U.S. adoptees (57% male) and their birth and rearing parents (70% and 92% White, 13% and 4% African American, and 7% and 2% Latinx,…
Descriptors: Genetics, Nature Nurture Controversy, Child Development, Language Acquisition
Jennifer E. Lansford; Laura Gorla; W. Andrew Rothenberg; Marc H. Bornstein; Lei Chang; Jeremy D. W. Clifton; Kirby Deater-Deckard; Laura Di Giunta; Kenneth A. Dodge; Sevtap Gurdal; Daranee Junla; Paul Oburu; Concetta Pastorelli; Ann T. Skinner; Emma Sorbring; Laurence Steinberg; Liliana Maria Uribe Tirado; Saengduean Yotanyamaneewong; Liane Peña Alampay; Suha M. Al-Hassan; Dario Bacchini – Child Development, 2025
Primal world beliefs ("primals") capture understanding of general characteristics of the world, such as whether the world is "Good" and "Enticing." Children (N = 1215, 50% girls), mothers, and fathers from Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and United States reported neighborhood danger,…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, Socioeconomic Status, Mothers
Yasamin Motamedi; Margherita Murgiano; Beata Grzyb; Yan Gu; Viktor Kewenig; Ricarda Brieke; Ed Donnellan; Chloe Marshall; Elizabeth Wonnacott; Pamela Perniss; Gabriella Vigliocco – Child Development, 2024
Most language use is displaced, referring to past, future, or hypothetical events, posing the challenge of how children learn what words refer to when the referent is not physically available. One possibility is that iconic cues that imagistically evoke properties of absent referents support learning when referents are displaced. In an…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Child Development, Cues, Parent Child Relationship
Waters, Theodore E. A.; Yang, Rui; Finet, Chloë; Verhees, Martine W. F. T.; Bosmans, Guy – Child Development, 2022
We examined the prototype v. revisionist models of attachment stability with a five-wave, 6-year, longitudinal study of attachment security from middle childhood to adolescence in a White Western European sample (N = 157; Wave 1 M[subscript age] = 10.91, SD = 0.87; 52% female). Attachment was assessed using both questionnaire (Experiences in Close…
Descriptors: Models, Attachment Behavior, Children, Adolescents
Nguyen, Vivian; Versyp, Otto; Cox, Christopher; Fusaroli, Riccardo – Child Development, 2022
Fluent conversation requires temporal organization between conversational exchanges. By performing a systematic review and Bayesian multi-level meta-analysis, we map the trajectory of infants' turn-taking abilities over the course of early development (0 to 70 months). We synthesize the evidence from 26 studies (78 estimates from 429 unique…
Descriptors: Child Development, Meta Analysis, Infants, Reaction Time
Austerberry, Chloe; Fearon, Pasco; Ronald, Angelica; Leve, Leslie D.; Ganiban, Jody M.; Natsuaki, Misaki N.; Shaw, Daniel S.; Neiderhiser, Jenae M.; Reiss, David – Child Development, 2022
Intellectual performance is highly heritable and robustly predicts lifelong health and success but the earliest manifestations of genetic effects on this asset are not well understood. This study examined whether early executive function (EF) or verbal performance mediate genetic influences on subsequent intellectual performance, in 561 U.S.-based…
Descriptors: Child Development, Intelligence, Genetics, Executive Function
Chen, Chi-hsin; Houston, Derek M.; Yu, Chen – Child Development, 2021
This research takes a dyadic approach to study early word learning and focuses on toddlers' (N = 20, age: 17-23 months) "information seeking" and parents' "information providing" behaviors and the ways the two are coupled in real-time parent-child interactions. Using head-mounted eye tracking, this study provides the first…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Information Seeking, Toddlers, Eye Movements
Moulton, Vanessa; Goodman, Alissa; Nasim, Bilal; Ploubidis, George B.; Gambaro, Ludovica – Child Development, 2021
This article investigates the influence of wealth, a frequently neglected aspect of the economic circumstances of families, on children's development. Using the UK Millennium Cohort Study, it explores whether parental wealth (net total wealth, net housing wealth, net financial wealth, and house value) is associated with children's cognitive…
Descriptors: Family Financial Resources, Parent Child Relationship, Child Development, Economic Factors
